SUTTER V. CRESCENT CITY HARBOR DISTRICT
Opinion and Commentary By Linda Sutter – May 29, 20025
The Honorable Judge McEfresh presided over this case today and the situation heard was a demurrer to my complaint which involved the Harbor District producing and creating a document instead of producing the original text form of a screenshot.
Before we began, Judge McElfresh told both of us neither one of us stated a claim because we were not on point and because there are no cases on text messaging.
It is true California is a little behind on the digital age, however, in 2023 a bill designed to speak on that subject was going to be voted on but at the last minute was pulled and replaced with SB908 regarding children and fentnyl.
In any case the Judge has to decide whether to give me a leave to amend my brief, or rule in Harbors favor and sustain the demurrer.
If the harbor wins I will need to submit it to the appellate court in San Francisco. My strategy will be quite different as it was today.
This is a senseless use of words and semantics. Obviously, as we all know the harbor is corrupt and this has been proven over and over again since 2021.
Now they dont want to produce public business exchanged on a cell phone where they are using Ring Central that hides conversations between the elected and the public regarding public business.
The Harbormaster at the last meeting wanted to change how long they keep text messages between each other deleting them every 24 hours. Rademaker also believes that a special district doesn’t have to follow the same laws as the city and county when it comes to the Brown Act and California Public Records Act.
How these board members allowed one individual to infiltrate the complete organization of the Harbor is anyone’s guess.
Nobody from the public except Roger Gitlin thinks he should be Harbormaster. He has no credibility with community members and is dragging the harbor down singlehandedly.
This issue should have never gone to court but due to his inability to be truthful, and his unwillingness to provide simple documents that are not edited and let’s not forget he is the administrator of the Ring Central app, Rademaker is hiding something big from the public.
Lastly, the commissioners blame me for them wasting thousands of dollars on legal fees and falsified claims of sexual harassment he created against a sitting Commissioner. The commissioners fail to see the common denominator is Rademaker he refuses Transparency.
In the meantime I patiently await the Judges decision however it may be.
